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  • A prosecutor told jurors today that Andrea Yates killed her five children because she thought she was a bad mother and wanted to be punished
  • A woman trying to run down another woman ran her car into a crowd of people at a party early this morning, injuring the target and a nearby man
  • Gov. Rick Perry and officials cut the ribbon today to open a 10-mile section of the reconstructed Katy Freeway between the Fort Bend County line and just west of Highway 6
  • A teenage girl and her parents are suing the Conroe school district for $2 million, alleging the district failed to protect the girl from sexual abuse by an employee
  • Lawyers for Angel Maurino Resendiz, the "Railroad Killer," asked the Supreme Court today to delay Resendiz's execution, saying he's mentally incompetent
  • The city of Galveston is considering changing restrictions on how close houses can be to beaches in the wake of state efforts to remove homes from public beaches
  • Webster Smith, a Coast Guard cadet accused of raping his sometimes-girlfriend, testified today at his court-martial that the sex was consensual
  • Thieves stripped copper and other metal from the air conditioning units of a northeast Houston church Saturday night, destroying the units

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